A Bessemer grocery store owner has pleaded guilty to defrauding the food stamp program of more than $5 million, structuring cash transactions and laundering money to hide the illegal profit and evading federal income taxes.

According to a news release from U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, 50-year-old Hasan F. Ahmed pleaded guilty to the charges on Tuesday. Ahmed agreed to forfeit $5.2 million to the government as proceeds of his crimes.